On Nov 17, 2007 12:00 PM, <fedora-arm-request@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:02:08 +0200 > From: "Rabeeh Khoury" <rabeeh@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: activity > To: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx>, "Manas Saksena" > <msaksena@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: > <B9FFC3F97441D04093A504CEA31B7C4101ED320D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > This is good news. I was going to ask the same question. There's a lot > > of SOHO NAS boxes coming out that run on the ARM architecture like the > > DNS-323 ( http://wiki.dns323.info/ ) that have a reasonable speed > > processor, some ram/flash etc that would be a good target for a mini > > fedora distro. > > The processor that drives this box is a Marvell SoC 88F5181. There are > other NAS boxes that are driven by Marvell SoC 88F5182. > Since the Linux kernel is completely GPLed, you can boot to a small > firmware like U-Boot and then boot completely off the hard drive. > Doing that you can start with small Fedora distro and then 'yum install' > other packages. > > > FWIW I'm trying to finish up an RFS builder which will hopefully simplify the task of creating RFSs & initrds for ARM devices. It is inspired by the livecd work of David Zeuthen and currently uses QEMU to do most of the work. I hope to release it here before the end of the year. As usual the last 10% of the work is taking 90% of the time.... :-) - tony _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
